ancistrosyrinx

noun

an·​cis·​tro·​syrinx

an¦sistrō +

1

capitalized : a small genus (family Turritidae) of gastropod mollusks that occur in warm deep seas and have delicate steeply shouldered pale shells ringed with upward-curving spines

2

plural ancistrosyringes : any mollusk or shell of the genus Ancistrosyrinx

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Greek ankistron fishhook + syrinx shepherd's pipe

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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